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The two most over-used buzzwords in business of the last ten to
fifteen years are "China's Coming" and "The internet will change
everything". Curiously, it's not very often that you hear both buzzwords
used together - but why not ? Using the internet to do business with
China has to be one of the smartest ideas around.
First of all,
China has some incredible advantages in terms of trade. It has easy
access to raw materials and cheap labour. Its economic base is growing
and there is very little that China can't produce. Secondly, it is a
massive and growing market for all sorts of products and services and
with an increasing taste for western brands. These facts alone make
doing business with China a very interesting proposition, let alone the
fact that your competitors are already thinking about how they can lower
costs and/or expand sales by doing business with China.
But there
are a number of drawbacks to doing face to face business

Stainless steel water bottles are durable, non-leaching and
non-reactive to most drinks. Most are designed to last for years and
many are designed to provide a lifetime of service. A few are even
rugged enough to be placed in campfires and used for heating soup or
beverages. Still, there are some things that can damage even a top
quality bottle. Some of these are common knowledge items and some are
things that people might never think of. For the record, here are some
tips to help make any water bottle last as long as it can.
First,
get a sleeve for the outside of the bottle. Yes the graphics on the
outside of the bottle are beautiful, but normal wear and tear will soon
scratch that pretty finish. To make it last, get either a neoprene or
insulated cover made from another material like quilted cotton or nylon.
There are a couple of added benefits from covers: they act as
insulators to help keep beverages hot or cold longer, and second, they
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Shenzhen, China may be the biggest city you've never heard of
lying in the heart of the Pearl River delta, this amazing place is now
home to an estimated 30 million people. It's also part of the world's
largest manufacturing hub in conjunction with Guangzhou (another Chinese
mega-city only an hour away from Shenzhen). So if you're considering
outsourcing your production capabilities sooner or later you're going to
spend some time looking at Shenzhen. When you do you'll be amazed at
the amount of choice available to the first time outsourcer, there are
hundreds if not thousands of factories in the area and whatever your
specialisation you'll be able to find a host of companies willing to
make your products at competitive rates. In fact it can be that
overwhelming amount of choice that can cause headaches for you. How do
you know if the supplier you are talking to is ethical? How will you
work out whether the workforce isn't made up of child labour? Or wh

What we need in our lives is more eco friendly water bottles, and
less of the disposable ones that have become so popular. Not enough
people recycle the plastic water bottles that they pick up from every
grocery and convenience store across the country. This is leading to a
buildup of these plastic bottles in our landfills that is reaching
astronomical proportions.
The reason that so many have made the
switch to drinking from these prepackaged containers is that the state
of our tap water system has gotten so bad, that there is no denying that
it is no longer safe for us to drink from it. This is why it was easy
for the slick marketing representatives at the bottling facilities to
convince us that their products were the way to go.
One of the
reasons that I say that we should simply consider using more eco
friendly water bottles is that in all honesty, the prepackaged water
that we are drinking may not b

A water bottle is more than a water bottle. You're going to find
that sure, they all do the same thing where you can drink from them, but
did you know that there are a lot more options?
Some of those
options are going to include the following and many people skip over
these options. If you're type that fills up their water bottle on a
daily basis for work or something else, you may want to consider the
other options that are listed down below.
BPA Free - Make sure that you get a BPA free bottle.
BPA is the chemical found in plastics. If it is BPA, the company will
note it on the front of the bottle packaging.
Ice Included - You can even get ice sticks in your
bottle now. These will simply hang from your cap and you will freeze it.
This is going to keep your liquids cold for a lot longer.
Insulation - Don't you hate it when your drink gets
really cold? When you have an insulated bottle, you're going to